Duncan Hallas

When they make their case, socialists take into account the audience they hope to convince and the kinds of arguments needed at the time.

The phrase is often used on the left as a general term of abuse, but its real meaning is abstention from the class struggle.

A 1973 article by a British socialist discusses the approach socialists should take to elections and the demand for reforms.

In the last decade of Trotsky's life, he fought to preserve the authentic communist tradition under unfavorable circumstances.

In the early 1920s, the Communist International needed to develop tactics that worked in a non-revolutionary situation.

An organized layer of workers with a shared consciousness of the necessity for socialism and how to achieve it has to be created.

Capitalists' profits come from the unpaid labor of workers--which is why socialists say that capitalism is organized theft.

Duncan Hallas' The Comintern offers a history of the Third International, founded with the aim of turning Russia's revolution into a worldwide one.